Authorities cannot find out what happened to the 22 kilograms of cocaine recently stolen from the East Baton Rouge Parish clerk of court’s evidence vault, Baton Rouge Police Chief Dewayne White said Monday.

Two former clerk of court employees were among the five people arrested last week in the case.

“There’s no way of us actually being able to track the dope that was stolen from the vault and placed back on the street,” White said at a news conference.

“You know that drug dealers have a network of confederates that they use and operate with, so to say if it’s in the state or in the city, no one knows,” White added.

District Attorney Hillar Moore III said his office will suggest auditing that evidence room and reviewing all policies for receiving criminal evidence, including possibly adopting a barcode scanning system to track evidence.

The lock system at the vault also has been changed, Moore said. The compromised vault has been locked so nothing can get in or out, and another office is being used to house any evidence for new cases.

Moore said as far as investigators can tell, no other evidence is missing from the vault.

“We only have begun to look,” he said of the ongoing, multi-agency investigation.

William Bates Colvin, 30, of Baton Rouge, and Debra Vicknair Bell, 55, of Maurepas, are the two clerk of court employees arrested. Colvin is the son of state District Judge Kay Bates.

Colvin and Bell were booked on one count each of theft, distribution of cocaine in excess of 400 grams and malfeasance in office.

Colvin and Bell were fired from the Clerk of Court’s Office on Friday, the office said Monday in a statement. Clerk of court officials declined further comment.

No other clerk of court employees have been implicated in the case, Moore said.